What is the Right Wine Humidity to Store Your Wine?

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What is the Right Wine Humidity to Store Your Wine?

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By: Muna wa Wanjiru

Wine humidity is an important factor in the storage of wines, but this doesn't affect the wine so much as it does the cork of the bottle. With a relative steady wine humidity, the cork won't shrink.

If it does happen then there's a chance that the cork can get damaged and oxygen can creep into the wine. And that's when everything starts going to pot and your wines become subject to the process known as oxidation.

You should ideally look to keeping your wines in a relative wine humidity level of between 50-80%25, although 70%25 wine humidity is what you should be aiming for.

Anything in excess of 80%25 wine humidity will cause labels and cardboard boxes to eventually succumb to rot. Your wines won't be affected by this factor however.

And low wine humidity levels can cause the cork to shrink.

Muna wa Wanjiru is a web administrator and has been researching and reporting on internet marketing for years. For more information on Wine Humidity, visit his site at Wine Humidity